Magazine Recommends Buying Undecorated Cakes For Weddings......

so today I was looking at the newest wedding magazine by Martha, and on the cake page one persons recommendation was to save lots of money by ordering your wedding cake undecorated & unadorned, then putting on your own flowers and decorations. I guess that's one explanation why so many people are asking for undecorated cakes. Not being a baker for business purposes, I would not want to make anyone a plain cake for a wedding, hmmmm. Pretty cheesy suggestion.

I had a bride recently ask if I would bake, stack and cover her cake with fondant so she could decorate it. I said no. I know some people say that it's money but I was very concerned about how fresh the cake would be - i finish my cakes the night before the wedding and she wanted the cake ready two days before. So everything has to be done two days ahead and i wasn't happy with that. Then there's the standard her decorations may have been but that's a different issue.

Hadn't even thought about the freshness issue. Can you imagine someone getting one a week or so before the wedding and making a proper mess of it. Yes.....the looks would be the least of the potential problems.

not to mention 'all sales final' cake is guaranteed to the point of pick up -- done -- but decorating a cake is the easiest funnest part but still it saves a bit of time -- i'd do it -- but i'd give her all the pros and cons -- i tell my brides the wedding taking place is not contingent on the cake being delivered -- bayam!

so today I was looking at the newest wedding magazine by Martha, and on the cake page one persons recommendation was to save lots of money by ordering your wedding cake undecorated & unadorned, then putting on your own flowers and decorations.

I have done this for couple brides recently..they are just so persistent! But I always make them sign a waver to the tune of "if you put something on it and damage it..then that's not my responsibility to fix". I find it quite annoying, but at the end of the day money is money; so there's a lot of pressure to just go for it and make the plain cake. It's not something I advertise on my website or facebook page though..

This kind of advice has been around forever, just like the "get a dummy cake and cut sheet cakes for the guests stuff. The funny thing is that I sell a lot of gumpaste flowers to brides who are buying a cake from a baker who won't make the flowers themselves, and they're planning on putting the flowers on themselves. So people do sell plain cakes and let the brides decorate them....

I don't see why the baker doesn't order the flowers from me and mark them up, they seem to send the brides on their merry way to find them on their own. And I know that they're not just saying they're getting a bakery cake and letting a friend make it because I ship them directly to the bakery a lot of the time. I just think it's kind of weird to let the bride go out and try to find them on her own.